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Wildflowers on the Viking Way

July 10, 2013July 10, 2013Grantham Ecology4 Comments

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Day 3 of #30dayswild - it’s been grey and windy all day here and the insects which are usually buzzing, fluttering… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
Day 2 of #30dayswild - walking the beach just a hundred metres from the vineyard, I think this Sea Bindweed offers… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 23 hours ago
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This is a common blue butterfly nectaring on a daisy just outside our yurt here on the vineyard - I can’t tell you how good it is to step out of the door into a mini meadow each morning! Whilst the adults feed on various flowers, the caterpillars feed on members of the pea family, especially bird’s foot trefoil which grows in abundance between the vines on our south facing slopes!

These sheep’s sorrel flowers are subtle and understated but have a beautiful architecture up close. They grow to around a foot high and make a shimmering haze of red beneath the vines here on the vineyard #wildflowerhour #wildflower #stmartins #scilly #stmartinsvineyard

Close-up of dwarf mallow flowering here on the vineyard #wildflowerhour #stmartins #scilly

I'm used to seeing bluebells beneath a canopy of oaks, so it's a strange adjustment to find them surrounded by buttercups, plantains and trefoils in the grasslands where they occur here on St Martin's, Scilly #wildflowerhour

Buff tailed bumblebee workers busy amongst the small-flowered catchfly here on the vineyard today #stmartins #scilly #stmartinsvineyard

These scarlet pimpernel have really made a show of themselves in the last week, flowering between the vines here on St Martins, Scilly #stmartins #scilly #wildflowerhour

Small flowered catchfly soaking up the last ray of evening sunshine here on the vineyard on St Martins, Scilly

Bee ballet - the Alexanders flowers beside the vineyard are buzzing with native pollinators and honey bees right now! #honeybee #bees #stmartinsvineyard #stmartins #scilly

Small flowered catchfly - a diminutive member of the campion family - flowering amongst the naturalised Bermuda buttercup on St Martins Vineyard this afternoon - this is a red-listed species in the UK which still thrives in cultivated fields here on Scilly #wildflower #wildflowerhour #stmartins #scilly #stmartinsvineyard

Force 10 winds today made for an invigorating walk to the eastern edge of St Martins! Great fun to watch birds like this oystercatcher zip past when with the wind, then labour for a small eternity trying to fly back again!

A queen bumblebee on fumitory flowers growing between the vines on St Martins Vineyard, Scilly #stmartins #scilly #bumblebee

A brief break in the wind and a little spring sunshine brought the solitary bees and hoverflies out today - this Eristalis hoverfly amongst them #hoverfly #scilly #stmartins

Some late February sunshine saw the queen bumblebees out of hibernation and on the wing - these will go on to establish nests and create a new generation of bumblebee workers to fill the flowers this summer! #bumblebee #stmartins #scilly #spring

Daffodils bringing a most welcome splash of colour in the late February sunshine!

New flowers in a new home - three cornered leek flowering in abundance on St Martin’s vineyard in the beautiful Isles of Scilly!

Snowdrops in #grantham cemetery #snowdrops

Snowdrops in the sunshine in #Grantham cemetery #spring #snowdrops

Snowdrop flowering in #Grantham cemetery - one of my favourite places to get a sneak preview of spring on a January afternoon #snowdrop

Snowdrops getting ready for spring in spite of the return of the cold, foggy wintery weather today #snowdrop #spring

Arc of stars over Fivizzano #starlapse

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